If you are to give up your Job tomorrow.. what would your future be like?

Question

How dependant are you on your current job? What would happen if you loose your job?What would you do to keep your life on track? Have you ever thought about your options?

Answer 1

Always think what would happen and it fills me with a nameless dread. Not to sound like a snob, I've always been in work and the thought of having to try and live on little or nothing scares the life out of me. I suppose once you get used to living with a certain amount it's hard to think of living without it. As for options not a day goes by when I don't regret not staying on at achool, going college etc and learning something useful like a trade. Because I didn't do this, options?........................I have none

Answer 2

You should always have something saved to get you through a period of being out of work... Most people are over dependent in that they are only about three paycheques away from the backruptcy courts if you know what I mean. To get another job you should keep an eye on who the good recruitment consultants are in your area....

Answer 3

I am very blessed in the fact that my husband and I own an Electrical business but I also work full time elsewhere. If I was to give up my regular job, I would work from the shop full time. That is what I hope to do one day.

Answer 4

I've been applying for jobs for the last few months and it's taking ages, so yep, if I lost my job tomorrow I'd be stuffed, I'd have no money but my savings (which aren't much at all). Then again I guess I have my parents and boyfrined to lean on, so I'm luckier than most.

Answer 5

be up **** creek.self employed, but would better off working for someone else,, least then i could have a holiday1week in 2 1/2 years, unpaid,, being a divorcee,, well it,s down to me to pay all the bills, if i did.nt own my own home{ mortgaged} and lived in a government home i.e local council, then the state has to pay, i would have to wait 6 months , before they pay the interest only, by that time i would have my home repossessed.keeping on track, well i have thought of fostering, it pays well. you get to stay at home,, its something i have always wanted to do,, irregardless of the money. at least then i might get a life.

Answer 6

I have some savings, so I would be OK to meet my basic living expenses for a few months but I would have to cut out all the extras (eating out, cable etc). Eventually, however, if I didn't find something I would have a very hard time paying my rent and that would be very bad.

Answer 7

not overly dependant on my job i would have to trim my spending a bit and do more voluntary work to occupy myself untill i found another, or go to college full time. i might even get to sign on the dole for the first time and get some of that tax back that i've paid all these years

Answer 8

I too would be poor, live one toast, dress my son in cast-offs, lose my car, home and be very very unhappy.

I actually like my job, but nothing is 100%, i would instantly go searching for another job if the worst came to the worst.

My job gives me a little bit of sanity, routine and normality.

My options are that i have to work, but i work to live i dont live to work. and hey! do i enjoy what i reap!!!

Answer 9

i hat emy job, but it's a good wage. i would love to lose it if i had the money, i am really dependant on the income but given the choice i would rather be a housewife. Cook, Clean, Shop, Watch crap on daytime telly, spend more time with my pets and my family...I wish. pity that money really does make the world go round

Answer 10

I'd be looking at a cardboard box and my flimsy sleeping bag. Maybe a bottle of Ripple on a cold night.